Salomé is Managing Editor at the HIR. She studies Government and Global Health. Her primary interests are politics of development and social determinants of health in Latin America and Africa.
Human Rights
"Historical trends suggest that countries that legalize abortion for demographic reasons have laws that are easy to overturn with changes in governmental power. In contrast, countries that legalize abortion as a result of protests may have laws that are much more difficult to overturn"
Public Health
"Most importantly, middle-income countries recognize that ending the pandemic will require international cooperation rather than isolationism—and that the pandemic won’t be over anywhere until it’s over everywhere."
The Americas
"Cuba’s medical services abroad bring hope that new humanitarian dynamics may be on the rise, promoting empowerment for the Global South and increasing cooperation across the hemisphere."
Middle East & Africa
Sheng imparts hope for a more united country, one that manages to bridge the gaps between tradition and modernity while breaking down ethnic barriers through pure linguistic innovation.
Middle East & Africa
Hundreds of billions of locusts, are gathering in swarms the size of major cities and devastating crops around Africa. Locust swarms have been a cause of famine and human migration since prehistory, and this year’s plague seems to be no exception.
Human Rights
On September 11, 1980, General Augusto Pinochet, head of the authoritarian military junta that staged a coup d’état in Chile, arranged a national plebiscite to ratify a new constitution. The referendum, approved by 67 percent of the population, served to solidify Pinochet’s position as President of the Republic
Employment & Immigration
Many nations in the modern world order have fought long and hard to earn their political independence, national self-determination, and consequently the status of citizenship for all their people. According to British sociologist T. H. Marshall [http://www.unesco.org/new/en/social-and-human-sciences/themes/international-migration/glossary/citizenship/] , citizenship is "a
Public Health
“When you are born in Venezuela, you are already sentenced to death,” said Mauricio Navas, a Venezuelan citizen whose six-year-old daughter Mariana is being treated for leukemia in a hospital in Caracas. During the 20th century, Venezuela was one of the most prosperous countries in the region. It significantly invested